By John Philip Wyllie
 91X morning show producer Carlos Montoya has plenty of opportunities to get involved in a variety of charities that are supported by his community-minded radio station. When he signed up to participate in Switchfoot’s Annual Bro-Am Surfing Competition on June 27 he naturally assumed that he would be surfing. His friends [...]

Mayweather vs Marquez back on! Marquez to fans: “Si Se Puede”
 Sports fans around the world can breathe again as it was announced today that the highly anticipated 12-round welterweight showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Juan Manuel Marquez has been officially rescheduled for September 19, after May-weather, who suffered a rib injury while training for the [...]

Por Mariana Martinez
Los conteos preliminares de las recientes elecciones federales en México apuntan a que al menos dos millones de personas, —5.39% de la votación nacional—, se decidió por la propuesta de anular su voto y en el DF esta cifra fue de 13.2%.
 Con esto se contribuyó a reducir a 38.5% la participación efectiva de [...]

Guest Editorial:
By Yolanda Chávez Leyva
We need to speak out against the ugliness that is fueling anti-immigrant violence and taking lives.
 The most recent example of how far some anti-immigrant people have gone is the home invasion-murder of Raul Flores and his 9-year old daughter, Brisenia, in Arizona on May 30.
 Two of the three people charged with [...]

Por José R. Uzal
 El verano es tiempo de entretenimiento y diversión. Todo toma un paso más calmado. La política no escapa este ciclo. Se calman las pasiones y los líderes departen a disfrutar el tiempo muerto en sus lugares favoritos.
 Desafortunadamente, las realidades cotidianas continúan. Los soldados en Iraq y Afghanistan y los inmigrantes indocumentados tienen [...]

Por Humberto Caspa, Ph.D
 No hay duda. El filósofo griego Platón lo dijo.  Nosotros, los seres humanos, somos fiel reflejo del mundo que nos rodea. Nuestra vida, en gran parte, está siendo determinada por el sistema político y económico en donde vivimos, por nuestras costumbres, la religión, cultura y otras estructuras sociales que son parte de [...]

 
The CDA (Chicano Democratic Association) came out with their early endorsements for the 2010 elections. Hijole hombres … this is way beyond early, candidates don’t even file their papers for City of San Diego until February 2010 (tezzy made a boo boo in the printed version with filing date, said it was June, but the [...]

 By Gustavo Arellano
 Dear Mexican: Why is it that ever since the U.S./California let you people immigrate, tunnel, weasel or whatever into this country that nothing good has happened and/or come from it? California’s welfare program is burdened with low-life Hispanics. The prison system is 70 percent Hispanic, 45 percent gang-based. Real estate values have dropped [...]

 “Mexican farm workers brought to the United States in accordance with the agreement between our two governments…are contributing their skill and their toil to the production of vitally needed food.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
 In 1943, President Roosevelt announced the creation of what would become the largest Mexican guest-worker program in U.S. [...]

Art Exhibition, Fundraiser, Celebration
 WHAT: Four Winds Gallery in Old Town will host a special event exhibiting the drawings, paintings, murals of local San Diego artist and activist Salvador Roberto “Queso” Torres.  The collection will cover a period of 30+ years from the 1960’s to present including work that emerged from the farm workers movement led [...]

Born in this county a new ‘chapines’ association
By América Barceló Feldman
NORTH COUNTY — Less than six months ago in San Diego, an organization comprised of Guatemalan residents was formed.
 With the spirit to help each other and spread their culture and traditions, a group of ‘chapines’ united last February to elect the board of directors for [...]

Por Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 La meta de Susana Rivera Torres era ingresar a la televisión en español para ayudar a mejorar la calidad de vida de los latinos en San Diego.
 “Necesitamos a personas bilingües estudiadas en la televisión,” dice. “Aunque estoy dispuesta a trabajar en inglés, mi prioridad es ayudar a mi raza. Estoy orgullosa de [...]

Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres… Spanish Proverb
By Alberto Marrero Salas
 Lately no one seems to be more involved in the defense of Democracy than Presidente maybe for Life Hugo Chavez.
 After the Supreme Court of Honduras and the Congress of Honduras decided to step in an end the unconstitutional and illegal power grab [...]

By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
New America Media
TUCSON — A grueling spiritual run from Tucson to Phoenix in defense of ethnic studies—in 110-plus-degree heat—culminated in a resounding victory in front of Arizonaxs state Capitol.
 The victory, however, had already taken place when the 50 runners, after completing nearly 120 miles, were greeted with ceremonial copal and a [...]

By Louis E.V. Nevaer
New America Media
MERIDA, Mexico — In this past Sunday’s midterm elections in Mexico, President Felipe Calderon’s party suffered a stunning rebuke from voters that, more than a defeat for the governing party, demonstrated the maturity of Mexico’s democracy.
 In democracies around the world, midterm elections give voters the opportunity to reaffirm, or repudiate, [...]

By Javier Sierra
 Mariana Chew-Sánchez Mariana Chew-Sánchez has been the target of a toxic bombardment that has lasted much of her life.
When she was very young, from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico she could see, with bitterness and impotence, the cloud of yellowish black smoke that day and night would travel from the stack of the ASARCO lead [...]

Por Javier Sierra
 Mariana Chew-Sánchez ha sido el blanco de un bombardeo tóxico que ha durado prácticamente toda su vida.
 Cuando era muy niña, desde Ciudad Juárez, México, miraba con una mezcla de amargura e impotencia esa nube de humo negro amarillento que día y noche cabalgaba de la chimenea de la fundición de plomo ASARCO en [...]

LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL
El Soporte Informativo Para Millones de Hispanos
Por Marangely Rodriguez
¡Llegó el verano! la época del año que marca la emoción de los niños al culminar un año escolar y el comienzo de las vacaciones. Para los padres, el escenario es otro, el verano muchas veces significa preocupaciones y gastos para cubrir las semanas que [...]

 Veteran’s Village of San Diego’s National Stand Down for Homeless Veterans is just around the corner. Beginning on Monday, July 13th, United States Marines and Naval personnel and community volunteers will join with staff, alumni and residents of Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD) to begin building Stand Down 2009 on the upper athletic field [...]

Taste of Bonita 2009 Highlights Local Restaurants for a Good Cause
Bonita, CA – The annual Taste of Bonita is back for 2009, and some of the area’s top restaurants are serving up their best once again. It’s the return of calories for a cause! The Taste of Bonita 2009 food festival will be held at [...]

  The National City Rotary Club met at Café La Maze in National City to celebrate its new incoming President, Mr. Adolfo Gonzales. Mr. Adolfo Gonzales is the Chief of Police for National City and he has been very involved with community service; therefore, all of the members of the National City Rotary Club are very [...]

By Rob Kuznia
Hispaninc Business
 The federal government is launching a campaign to put more stimulus money in the hands of minority-owned businesses, many of them reeling from this historic recession, now in its 20th month.
 But an official with the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce says thus far, the stimulus money has eluded minority-run businesses in his [...]

 Assemblymember Marty Block (D-78) has announced an open house of his District Office. “We had a very successful open house in December,” commented the Assemblymember, “and hopefully would like to repeat that while introducing residents to our local staff and services available to them.” The District office is a great place to learn about help [...]

Features Stimulus Opportunities for Small Businesses

On July 16, from 12pm-5pm, the National City Bayfront Business Expo and Job Fair offers an exciting marketing, networking, and educational platform for small business to access stimulus resources. The event will be held at Marina Gateway, 740 Bay Marina Dr., National City’s newest bayfront development.
The Bayfront Expo includes exhibitor [...]

Nace en el condado una nueva asociación de ‘chapines’
Por América Barceló Feldman
 NORTE DEL CONDADO — Poco menos de seis meses tiene de haberse conformado en San Diego una organización de guatemaltecos residentes de este condado.
 Con el espíritu de ayudarse entre si y difundir su cultura y tradiciones un grupo de ‘chapines’ se unió a principios [...]

By Pablo Jaime Sáinz
 Susana Rivera Torres’s goal was to enter Spanish-language television to help improve the quality of life for Latinos in San Diego.
 “We need more prepared bilingual people on television,” she said. “Even though I’m open to working in English, mi priority is to serve my people. I’m proud of my roots, and I [...]

By Khalil Abdullah
New America Media
Editor’s Note: At nearly 80, United Farmworkers Union co-founder Dolores Huerta personifies the phrase she coined, “Sí se puede!” which President Obama borrowed and translated as “Yes, we can!” New America Media editor Khalil Abdullah interviewed Huerta, who was honored as an extraordinary older woman at the AARP Diversity Conference in Chicago.
 Dolores [...]

By Mariana Martinez
 Preliminary number in the recent federal elections in Mexico, show close to two million people, — 5.39% of the total national vote—, decided to annul their vote. In México City, that number was even higher; 13.2% of the total vote.
 This movement of annulment helped to contribute to the fact that only 38.5% of [...]